Author: Sandra Radlovacki

Oracle’s AI Agents Aim to See Everything Happening in Your Business

During its Q2 2026 earnings call, Oracle described a growing push toward AI agents and their role in helping enterprises use their data more effectively across customer-facing operations. While the call covered cloud revenue, infrastructure expansion and multicloud growth, the...

easyJet Taps Emplifi to Boost CX

CX and social media marketing platform Emplifi has partnered with easyJet to strengthen the airline’s customer care operations across social media, using AI-powered tools to improve response times and service consistency. The collaboration will see easyJet adopt Emplifi’s customer care platform,...

AI Is Racing Ahead of Employee Confidence, Survey Reveals

AI has been promised as the great unlock for productivity. Faster workflows, smarter scheduling, and less admin for overstretched teams. However, the reality is vastly different. UKG’s new 2026 workforce outlook suggests something much simpler is holding companies back: trust. The HR...

Thoma Bravo Finalises Verint Takeover

Thoma Bravo has officially completed its acquisition of Verint, closing the deal on November 26, 2025 and moving ahead with its plan to merge the CX automation provider with portfolio company Calabrio, which it acquired in 2021. The transaction brings together...

Enterprises Are Pouring Money Into AI They Don’t Trust

Big AI budgets are becoming the norm across enterprise tech, even as confidence in autonomous systems remains hard to find. New research from Workato surveyed more than 600 technology decision-makers and found that only 6% currently trust agentic AI to handle...

27% of U.S. Workers Would Rather Get a Root Canal Than Attend the Office Holiday Party

This December, plenty of workers would rather book a dentist appointment than open an office holiday party invite. Apparently, mandatory cheer doesn’t land the way it used to. New national research conducted by Censuswide on behalf of social-connection nonprofit Sunny found...

Riyadh Air to Become ‘World’s First AI-Native Airline’, Powered by IBM

Riyadh Air has announced a partnership with IBM that will see the Saudi Arabian carrier become what it claims is “the world’s first AI-native airline”, building its operations entirely around AI from launch rather than layering technology onto legacy systems....

ChatGPT Launched a Shopping Research Feature and People Have Mixed Feelings

OpenAI has launched a new shopping research feature inside ChatGPT, turning the AI assistant into a product-finding and comparison tool in time for the holiday rush. The feature is rolling out on web and mobile for logged-in users across all plans...

Salesforce Says AI Agents Are Already Running Customer Experience

Salesforce opened its Q3 2026 earnings call by stating that AI agents are actively running customer experience inside some of the world’s largest organisations. Speaking alongside engineering, sales and finance executives, CEO Marc Benioff described a shift from isolated automation pilots...

RCS Takes the Lead in Customer Communication This Black Friday

Black Friday inboxes and message feeds looked very different this year. Instead of receiving discount alerts, shoppers were scrolling through interactive cards, tapping product carousels, and exchanging two-way messages with brands inside their native messaging apps. That shift was driven...